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Vetted Communication Professionals
Pre-screened and vetted.
Alex Tabakin
Intern Sports Marketing professional with media and basketball analytics experience
“Sales/business development intern experience at Degy Entertainment with high-volume outbound calling (50 cold calls/day) and a research-first approach focused on identifying the buyer and target demographics. Comfortable building target lists, defining an ideal partner profile, and creating structure from limited data using spreadsheets and Salesforce reporting; interested in applying AI/automation to follow-ups, data entry, and prospect research.”
Julia Ayrault
Mid-level Youth Basketball Trainer and Elementary Education Professional
“Former high-level AAU player and Michigan State basketball player (6 years) who now runs a basketball training LLC (40for40basketball) with 50+ consistent clients. Leverages college/AAU connections plus social media scouting and frequent on-camera content (TikTok/IG Reels/Facebook) to help athletes improve skills and increase recruiting exposure.”
Nicolas Barroso
Junior Game Artist specializing in stylized 2D/3D animation and digital art
“Student VFX artist/developer who has shipped multiple real-time effects in a Unity mobile runner game, including a stylized spark effect built in VFX Graph and performance-minded particle lifecycle management. Also created a scanner VFX using Unity’s Shuriken system and uses AI selectively for gizmos/procedural leg animation visualization.”
Dj Kane
Junior Sales & Project Management professional in residential services
“Former collegiate basketball player (JUCO/D2/D3) turned youth/AAU coach and community scout in Austin. Has recruited players for an AAU program and emphasizes full-game evaluation plus exposure-driven development; also creates Instagram Reels/TikTok content and is willing to be on-camera to educate families about recruiting.”
“Enterprise Rent-A-Car branch employee combining frontline sales (vehicle upgrades and protection products) with operational ownership of reservations and fleet availability. Regularly performs outbound phone/email outreach to confirm insurance-driven reservations and convert them into in-branch rentals, and has demonstrated strong on-the-fly problem solving when short-staffed and facing vehicle availability constraints.”
Krystin Sheahan
Senior HR & People Operations Manager specializing in talent acquisition and HR operations
“People/HR leader who partners directly with CEOs and senior leadership to drive culture and employee experience transformations during organizational change. Brings a systems-thinking and data-driven approach across onboarding, performance/development practices, and employee relations, including coaching leaders and running impartial investigations to rebuild trust and improve team alignment.”
Marshawn Denny
Director of Operations specializing in nonprofit/startup operations and sports program leadership
“Detroit-raised AAU/travel-ball alum who later coached youth (including girls) and helped run showcases, clinics, summer leagues, and tournaments—combining on-court talent evaluation with event logistics and family/player guidance. Also produces recruiting-style basketball media (highlights/spotlights/recaps) and has created onboarding/training videos for startups supporting distributed teams.”
Juanita Saa
Mid-level Graphic Designer specializing in branding and social media content
“Marketing designer producing both social/short-form video and print/event collateral across brands and industries. Notable projects include print signage/totems for the Flags Over Washington installation and an event recap video for Lungevity Foundation, with an emphasis on scalable template systems, strong typographic clarity, and multi-platform versioning.”
Cristina Durso
Director-level Creative Design Manager specializing in brand systems and scalable templates
“Design manager who led a full rebrand and owned marketing creative end-to-end (brainstorming, templating, design, delivery), partnering closely with engineers to ensure content accuracy while keeping assets user-focused and CTA-driven. Experienced building scalable Figma component/auto-layout templates for high-volume campaign, social, and advertising output, plus lightweight marketing video workflows emphasizing pacing and legibility.”
Vinicius Leite
Staff/Lead Game Engineer specializing in gameplay systems and VR
“Unity gameplay programmer with hands-on multiplayer networking experience (Photon Fusion, Mirror, SmartFox, Unity networking), including client-side prediction and rollback to smooth networked movement under lag/packet loss. Recently improved a fast-paced 2D platformer’s feel by adding momentum/velocity “gears,” validated through internal cohorts and volunteer/friends-and-family playtests. Comfortable in both startup and large-company environments and currently seeking a high-impact, intensive project.”
Nikita Sipeikin
Mid Backend Java Developer specializing in high-load FinTech systems
“Java developer with hands-on experience using AI coding tools heavily in day-to-day development, estimating roughly 60% AI-generated output in a recent shipped feature. Brings practical debugging and testing experience, including performance testing and resolving Spring Boot circular dependency issues through architectural changes.”
Antonio Walker
Senior Technical Lead and Full-Stack Engineer specializing in cloud, AI, and enterprise platforms
“Engineering leader and player-coach who says he joined Freeing Returns during a transition from sales-led services to SaaS, architected the platform from the ground up, and helped hire a 10+ person team across engineering, product, and delivery. He also describes leading an AI-based fraud detection system on Salesforce with data lake and pipeline architecture, combining startup build-from-scratch execution with hands-on technical leadership.”
Md Iqbal Hossain
Mid-level AI & Computer Vision Engineer specializing in edge robotics perception
“Master’s thesis engineer who built and deployed a continuous real-time perception + state estimation + control loop under tight latency constraints, owning both software architecture and hardware integration. Strong ROS 2 fundamentals with a systems-first approach—stabilizes robotic behavior by instrumenting, logging/replaying real data, and fixing timing/synchronization issues rather than treating failures as purely algorithmic.”
Victoria Butkowski
Director-level Business Operations professional in collegiate and professional sports
“Former student-athlete and collegiate assistant soccer coach with hands-on experience supporting 20+ athletes across skill development, academic monitoring, travel, and expense handling. Has also worked at the Mountain West Conference on NIL-related tasks and conference realignment, and brings a recruiting-first mindset including player evaluation, relationship-building with coaches, and creating highlight/bio content using Canva.”
wojciech mięsikowski
Senior Unity Developer & VFX Artist specializing in VR and multiplayer systems
“Unity gameplay programmer who built a high-impact "furniture influence" system for a RimWorld-like base builder, adding spatial synergy that changed how players approached building. Also helped remaster a prior title by adding live-service multiplayer using PlayFab for lobby/matchmaking and LiteNetLib reliable UDP, validated via stress tests with simulated clients for a smooth release.”
Imran Ullah
Senior Unity/Game Developer specializing in mobile, multiplayer, AR/VR and Web3
“Unity gameplay engineer with experience shipping features for a multiplayer cricket title (RVG Cricket), including a high-impact replay system that records and replays full play sequences across all on-field entities. Also implemented Photon-based multiplayer and debugged host/client execution issues, and uses AI tools to speed up data enrichment workflows (e.g., generating/matching country ISO codes from JSON into ScriptableObjects).”
Olivia Kitteridge
Mid-level XR Developer specializing in Unity/Unreal VR/AR for education
“Unity VR/XR developer with shipped Meta Quest experience spanning UI, monetization, and content creation. Built multiple themed racing worlds end-to-end (tracks, lighting, decals, pickups) and independently developed a VR exploration/storytelling experience that premiered in a museum exhibit. Also experiments with conversational AI, including a dynamic antagonistic dialogue system and audio-detection-driven gameplay elements.”
Ayush Rana
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in FastAPI, Node.js, and React
“Frontend engineer in fintech who led a client onboarding platform end-to-end, building a scalable React/TypeScript architecture with Redux-driven multi-step verification workflows. Strong focus on quality at scale through UI automation/E2E testing and CI/CD (GitHub Actions + Docker), enabling faster releases (bi-weekly to daily) while staying stable despite evolving backend APIs.”
Shreyas Khatav
Mid-level Project Manager specializing in marketing and go-to-market execution
“Lifecycle/CRM marketer from Lid Vizion who led behavior-segmented onboarding/reactivation email programs, delivering a 26% lift in email engagement. Experienced running A/B tests (subject lines, CTAs, send times) and coordinating cross-functionally across creative/product/dev to align influencer, blog, and email messaging—cutting go-to-market time by 20%.”
Balaji Namala
Junior AI Engineer specializing in LLM systems, RAG, and scalable cloud AI
“Built and shipped production LLM agents for real-time, high-concurrency conversational systems, including a RAG-based pipeline with dynamic multi-provider routing and failover that achieved 99.99% reliability and sub-800ms latency. Also architected a UAV telemetry chatbot with tool-calling (anomaly detection/summarization), strict schema validation, and robust eval/monitoring loops, cutting tool-call errors by 30% and reducing operational costs by 90%.”
Stephen Croone
Mid-level FinTech Sales Professional specializing in relationship-based district growth
“Former college basketball All-American with 20+ years in the game who has coordinated youth camps/leagues and now actively helps high school players get recruited by leveraging a network of college coaches. Builds audience and pipeline through daily video content and a 12K-following TikTok presence focused on transparent recruiting steps and skills training.”
Anthony Mastro
Entry-Level Sales Professional specializing in consultative selling and client engagement
“Solar sales background spanning high school through college with hands-on ownership of high-volume prospecting and appointment setting (about 100 calls/day) plus in-person homeowner meetings. Created structure in an ambiguous environment by building a neighborhood-targeting method and a standardized multi-channel follow-up cadence, then tracked results in spreadsheets to refine messaging and improve consistency.”
Riya Stanly
Intern Data Scientist specializing in machine learning, NLP, and LLM fine-tuning
“Built a production-style AI meeting summarization and action-item extraction system (Azure Speech-to-Text + transformer summarization/NER) exposed via a Flask REST API, with explicit guardrails to prevent hallucinated tasks. Strong focus on reliability: modular agent/workflow design, precision-first evaluation with human-validated golden notes, and practical orchestration patterns (tool-augmented agents; ready to scale into Airflow/LangGraph/Prefect).”
Swapnil Sanjay Pawar
Junior Full-Stack Software Engineer specializing in GenAI and web platforms
“AI/software engineer with hands-on experience deploying an LLM-powered quiz generation platform for students, integrating Python services with Gemini APIs plus frontend and database components. Emphasizes production-grade reliability through observability, schema validation, async processing, and performance tuning under high concurrency, and has collaborated with product/operators (e.g., at Colombo AI) to translate real-world constraints into scalable technical solutions.”